Despite the penetrating potential, and arrow can be a delicate thing.
Just ask Dale Chapplow, a member of the Quesnel archery club, who got second at the Burnaby Canada Cup.
“One arrow cost me the me the gold medal,” Chapplow said.
Chapplow did well the entire championship and was sitting on top of the heap deep into his last round. That was when the delicacy of his arrows came into play.
“Half way down the fletching came off and [the arrow] dove,” Chapplow said.
Before the unfortunate fletching failure he was on top, after the arrow he lost the gold by three points.
But while Chapplow finished in a disappointing second, Sydney Watson took a step up into the senior division, from her junior division, and managed to finish the tournament in third.
Watson was forced to step up in competition because the Canada Cup does not have a junior division.
Despite the higher level of of competition, Watson shot well, though Chapplow, who is Watson’s coach, is sure she has potential to grow.
Due to a busy schedule, with exams at school and a host of other things on her plate, time constraints are causing some trouble.
“Her biggest problem right now is finding time to practice,” Chapplow said.
Scott Watson was also down in Burnaby with the archery club, but had the bad luck of meeting Chapplow in the first round.
